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bottom have extension pieces of angle-iron, and measure 13 inches across. The ends are made to lap over the cross-girder seats, where they are fixed with wrought-iron bolts 2 1/2 inches long by 7/8 of an inch thick, fastened with screw nuts. Four of these big longitudinal girders are fitted into each section, and on them the wooden cross-ties for the car rails are laid. Before the work has advanced that far, however, the long longitudinal girders are firmly braced with angle-iron."

This heavy construction is done by a construction rig consisting "of a steam hoisting apparatus which is on a mammoth platform car, having six broad wheels, running on portable "travelers." Two ponderous "grasshopper" derricks are used to lift the heavy girders. This rig shifts forward as each new section is completed.

The reporter got this information from a book, I'm sure, "the work is being done on conventional lines" starts this description.

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November 16, 1900 page 3, col 3 New York Times

Brooklyn Railroad President Publicly Answers his Critics

"The problem of transportation in Brooklyn is more different than in any other city in the United States, because the greater part of the traffic is to and from New York. We cannot judge just what the traffic will be from day to day, and yet we are criticized if we don't have a car waiting on the street whenever it is wanted."

"Why are no transfers issued from Broadway to intersecting lines?"

"I have had transfers for all these lines in my hands for some time. We must go slow in issuing transfers, because every additional transfer issued increases the congestion further down town

Says too Many Transfers cause Congestion

from a speech by Clinton L. Rossiter made before the Broadway board of trade of the Eastern District of Brooklyn on Nov 15, 1900